UTF problem

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Hi all,

I have a problem with UTF8 problem and array
when I select from a table (hebrew_general_ci) and echo the employee name it works fine:

	$employee_sql = "select employee_id,employee_name from tbl_employees order by employee_name";
			$db->query($employee_sql);
	               while ($db->next_record()){
		              $employee_name	  = $db->Record['employee_name'];
                              echo $employee_name;
            }

but when I add it to an array and try to echo it I get strange chars like ��

	$employee_sql = "select employee_id,employee_name from tbl_employees order by employee_name";
			$db->query($employee_sql);
			$em=0;
            while ($db->next_record()){
		            $employee_id[$em] 	      = $db->Record['employee_id'];
                    $employee_name[$em] 	  = $db->Record['employee_name'];
                    echo $employee_name[$em];
                    $em++;
            }

any ideas?
thanks!